Author: Territorial Pioneers of California, San Francisco
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
First Annual of the Territorial Pioneers of California
Author: Territorial Pioneers of California, San Francisco
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Union Catalog of Clemens Letters
Author: Paul Machlis
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520096882
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520096882
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Re-unions of the Old Californians in New York
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385372739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385372739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Sutter Family and the Origins of Gold-Rush Sacramento
Author: John Augustus Sutter
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134932
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
John A. Sutter (1803-1880) could have become one of the richest men in California when gold was found on his property. Instead he lost his vast land holdings on the Sacramento and Feather Rivers and eventually left California penniless. Sutter always claimed to be the victim of charlatans, but he bore considerable responsibility for his downfall. He had amassed huge debts before the gold discovery and added even more afterward. In the rough dealings of frontier capitalism in gold rush California, Sutter was easy prey. Soon after the gold discovery, Sutter’s eldest son, John Jr., (1826-1897) arrived, but soon moved south to Mexico. Hoping to obtain compensation for the land that he and his father had lost, John, Jr., returned to California in 1855 to give his lawyer a thorough statement cataloging how both Sutters were swindled. This extensive document describes the dirty deals of the first great gold rush in the western United States. Sutter’s statement has not been available for sixty years. Editor Allan R. Ottley reproduced and annotated this statement, providing a full biographical context and offering an appendix, bibliography, and index. Albert L. Hurtado’s introduction updates the book, originally published in 1942.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134932
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
John A. Sutter (1803-1880) could have become one of the richest men in California when gold was found on his property. Instead he lost his vast land holdings on the Sacramento and Feather Rivers and eventually left California penniless. Sutter always claimed to be the victim of charlatans, but he bore considerable responsibility for his downfall. He had amassed huge debts before the gold discovery and added even more afterward. In the rough dealings of frontier capitalism in gold rush California, Sutter was easy prey. Soon after the gold discovery, Sutter’s eldest son, John Jr., (1826-1897) arrived, but soon moved south to Mexico. Hoping to obtain compensation for the land that he and his father had lost, John, Jr., returned to California in 1855 to give his lawyer a thorough statement cataloging how both Sutters were swindled. This extensive document describes the dirty deals of the first great gold rush in the western United States. Sutter’s statement has not been available for sixty years. Editor Allan R. Ottley reproduced and annotated this statement, providing a full biographical context and offering an appendix, bibliography, and index. Albert L. Hurtado’s introduction updates the book, originally published in 1942.
Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn
Author: Samuel Curtis Upham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Samuel Curtis Upham (1819-1885) was a clerk in a Philadelphia merchant house when he decided to try his luck in California in January, 1849. Sailing round the Horn, he visited Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana before landing in San Francisco. After a brief career as a gold miner at the Calaveras diggings, Upham moved to Sacramento, where he published the Sacramento Transcript, May-August 1850. Notes of a voyage to California (1878) includes Upham's memoirs of his early years in California, with special attention to Sacramento's colorful history in 1850. He closes his narrative with a brief description of his return to Philadelphia that same year via Panama. The book's lengthy appendix contains chapters on California journalism, the California exhibition at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, and various reunion dinners and other events sponsored by the California "Pioneers" association.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Samuel Curtis Upham (1819-1885) was a clerk in a Philadelphia merchant house when he decided to try his luck in California in January, 1849. Sailing round the Horn, he visited Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana before landing in San Francisco. After a brief career as a gold miner at the Calaveras diggings, Upham moved to Sacramento, where he published the Sacramento Transcript, May-August 1850. Notes of a voyage to California (1878) includes Upham's memoirs of his early years in California, with special attention to Sacramento's colorful history in 1850. He closes his narrative with a brief description of his return to Philadelphia that same year via Panama. The book's lengthy appendix contains chapters on California journalism, the California exhibition at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, and various reunion dinners and other events sponsored by the California "Pioneers" association.
Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book Shop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Mark Twain Day by Day: 1835-1885
Author: David H. Fears
Publisher: Horizon Micro Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Publisher: Horizon Micro Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Auction Catalogues
Author: Scott and O'Shaughnessy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
California Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description